00:00sports beyond age life without limits the 2025 world masters games have arrived in taiwan the
00:14global sporting event has attracted over 25 000 athletes from 100 countries to taipei and new
00:21taipei city and on friday evening athletes gathered at the taipei dome for the games opening ceremony
00:28i'm from tahiti and competing golf u.s chicago area uh we compete judo i am mary i'm 66 years old
00:40and i come from south africa johannesburg and i play field hockey so does all my teammates and they all
00:48the average age 60 years and older as this year's events slogan suggests age is nothing but a number
00:58at the world masters games anyone over 30 can sign up to compete in the event's 35 sports some
01:05athletes here are testing the limits of time like the world's oldest badminton player lin yu mau who
01:12is 104 years old the night opened in grand fashion with performances by the likes of taonis indigenous
01:24singer a pao and indigenous performance group nanguak then both the taipei and new taipei mayors marked
01:32the occasion celebrating the taipei world masters games as a historic achievement
01:37the fight
01:46Five guests of honor officially kicked off the Games, including Taiwan's Olympic gold
02:09medal boxer Lin Yuting and NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang, who is Taiwanese-American.
02:16Unlike the Olympics, athletes don't represent countries at the World Masters Games.
02:26There are no borders and no limits.
02:29It's an event that's more about having fun and connecting with others as sports should
02:35be.
02:36Luffy Lee, Yishin Chen, Sandy Chi, and Leslie Liao for Taiwan Plus.
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